Maybe there's outbreeding → social cohesion → support for popular (vs. just elite/scribal) literacy → technological acceleration mechanism?
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@hbdchick Don't really buy that. 1) 800 years =implausibly long; 2) Renaissance was built on medieval progress e.g. scholasticism, humanism. -
@akarlin88 my time guesstimate is ca. 400 years. 800 was hamilton's.
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@hbdchick Many European intellectuals were notorious for not revealing their work: Tartaglia; Cardano; Gauss; Newton; ...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@hbdchick So I don't buy into the "wikification" thesis. Many people, esp. intellectuals, want to keep things to themselves just because. -
@akarlin88 am thinking of all the societies & coffee houses, etc., of the enlightenment. big emphasis on sharing, i think. i could be wrong!
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